Re: Cleaning up the EIEIO namespace

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>>>> In toplevel form:
>>>>> eieio.el:168:1:Error: Symbol's function definition is void:
>>>>> eieio--class-parent
>>>> Can you (setq byte-compile-error t debug-on-error t) so as to get
>>>> a backtrace?
>>> Did you mean `byte-compile-error-on-warn'? Anyway, I'm afraid I just
>>> don't get a backtrace with debug-on-error.
>> No, I meant byte-compile-debug sorry.
> Ah OK, I didn't know that one. Now I get a trace, but it's huge, so I
> gzipped it.

eieio's extensive abuse of eval-and-compile is a real pain in the rear!
Does the additional patch below make it work for you?


        Stefan


--- lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio.el.orig       2013-02-17 12:06:09.252331190 -0500
+++ lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio.el    2013-02-17 12:06:20.336456193 -0500
@@ -121,10 +121,9 @@
                  (list 'aref x ,index))
               defs)
         (setq index (1+ index))))
-    `(progn
+    `(eval-and-compile
        ,@(nreverse defs)
-       (eval-and-compile
-         (defconst ,(intern (format "eieio--%s-num-slots" prefix)) ,index)))))
+       (defconst ,(intern (format "eieio--%s-num-slots" prefix)) ,index))))
 
 (eieio--define-field-accessors class
   (-unused-0 ;;FIXME: not sure, but at least there was no accessor!

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